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  • Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
  • Written by: Nicholas Blanford
  • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
  • Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Warriors of God

Written by: Nicholas Blanford
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Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a decade and a half of reporting in Lebanon and conversations with Hezbollah’s determined fighters, Blanford reveals their ideology, motivations, and training, as well as new information on military tactics, weapons, and sophisticated electronic warfare and communications systems.

Using exclusive sources and his own dogged investigative skills, Blanford traces Hezbollah’s extraordinary evolution - from a zealous group of raw fighters motivated by Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution into the most formidable non-state military organization in the world, whose charismatic leader vows to hasten Israel’s destruction. With dramatic eyewitness accounts, including Blanford’s own experiences of the battles, massacres, triumphs, and tragedies that have marked the conflict, the story follows the increasingly successful campaign of resistance that led to Israel’s historic withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000.

Warriors of God shows how Hezbollah won hearts and minds with exhaustive social welfare programs and sophisticated propaganda skills. Blanford traces the group’s secret military build-up since 2000 and reveals the stunning scope of its underground network of tunnels and bunkers, becoming the only journalist to independently discover and explore them. With the Middle East fearful of another, even more destructive war between Lebanon and Israel, Blanford tenaciously pursues Hezbollah’s post-2006 battle plans in the Lebanese mountains, earning him newspaper scoops as well as a terrifying interrogation and a night in jail.

©2011 Nicholas Blanford (P)2011 Random House Audio

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  • 2023-10-15

Fascinating

One of the most interesting, unbiased, and in-depth accounts of Hezbollah I have ever read. I am looking forward to reading it again at some point in the future, and would recommend this book to anyone interested in topics of this nature!

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One must bear witness

An unbelievable tale of lives unfathomable to those of us in the west. Nicholas Blanford is a true journalist, and although I have a deep rooted hatred for political Islam, I thank him for bringing a human face to the many faceted religious beast. An engaging read from "cover to cover." As for the author I must thanks him, for bearing witness to things we all do our best to ignore, and for his true dedication to a type of journalism that is rarely covered with the respect it deserves.

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  • 2017-11-04

One of the best and genuine reviews of Hezbollah

A genuine and factual review of the situation. As a native from the region I find this book as one the best recaps of the past 40 years of the region's history.

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